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Finding yourself parched and thirsty is a very good thing if it invites you to ask for watering.
“Drench with grace our dried-out hearts.” A prayer by Thomas Keating
“The parched ground will become a pool, and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty land.” Isaiah 35:7
Sometimes you don’t know what really happened until you look back.
“I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. . . . [E]verything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my experience, has been through affliction. . . .” Malcolm Muggeridge
“[The Lord] drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me. . . .” Psalm 18:16-17
Last Saturday morning, I watched World War II vets deplane at Washington Reagan into an ocean of thank-you – a brass band, flags and beauty queens, shouts and cheers and handshakes. The rest of us, the racing travelers, joined in. We forgot about ourselves for a heavenly while.
“Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one.” Donald Miller
“Don’t think only about your own affairs. . . .” Philippians 2:3-4
When you watch a young father watching his infant, it reminds you that joy is still a verb.
“And He will joy over you with singing. . . .” Zephaniah 3:17
“There is absolutely nothing we can do to make God stop desiring us.” Patrick Henry Reardon
Every time you choose not to worry (about the weather or somebody you love or tomorrow or whatever), you’re saying another small I-can’t-but-God-can. It’s a very good habit.
“I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let Him.” Anonymous
“Why do you worry. . . ?” Matthew 6:28
When you remember that you’re as safe and secure as a well-loved child, you can relax and enjoy other people’s beauty and creativity and accomplishments with no gnawing need to measure up.
“He [is] beckoning His followers into a way of being present to others that [does] not involve asserting their own self-importance over against those around them.” Jeremy Stefano
“My soul finds rest in God alone.” Psalm 62:1
